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The Casual Effect of Family Size on the Human Capital in Iranian Society
This study examines the causal effect of family size on the educational level of children in Iranian society using the urban and rural household...
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The Fiscal Treatment of Family Size: An Overview
There is general consensus, among the populace at large and actually also among the majority of social scientists, that large families should be... -
The Fiscal Treatment of Family Size: A Further Look
In this Chapter we take a more detailed look at the fiscal treatment of family size under one of the tax systems reviewed in Chap. 5... -
Investigating the Role of Non-family CEOs in Knowledge Diffusion and Investment Behavior in Family Firms During Succession
Although family businesses are formidable economic forces, navigating transitions in leadership can be difficult. This research examines the effects...
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Family social capital and entrepreneurship in rural China: potential mediating mechanisms
Promoting rural family entrepreneurship is an effective way to realize rural revitalization. The primary aim of this study is to assess the...
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Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014
Family economic mobility has been a policy concern for decades, with interest heating up further since the 1990s, especially as the inequality of the...
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Familiar but also radical? The moderating role of regional clusters for family firms in the emergence of radical innovation
Family firms are widely acknowledged to be the most predominant form of organization and hold a great relevance in most economies. Nevertheless,...
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Fertility and Family Dynamics
This chapter surveys broad patterns of fertility from the Industrial Revolution to the present, with a focus on the United States and Western Europe.... -
The Lights and Shadows of Family Involvement in Small and Medium-Sized Firms
This study analyzes the influence of human capital (HC) and altruism on small- and medium-size firms’ (SMEs) performance, contingent upon the effect...
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Bringing the Family Back In: Political Economy and the Family in Liberal Theory
In liberal society, the family is sometimes seen as a problematic-institution for its effect on individual freedom. Yet, the liberal order implicitly... -
Commuting, Family, and Wages
This chapter reviews theoretical and applied research on worker commuting behaviors and how they relate to or affect other household behaviors and... -
Family-oriented versus career seekers: mixture regression separation
Using a finite mixture regression approach, we identify two groups of individuals, family- and career-oriented. Depending on whether the employment...
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Working from home leads to more family-oriented men
We examine how working from home (WFH) affects men’s participation in childcare and housework and their attitudes toward family. Because WFH is an...
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How Extended Family Mental Health Issues Influence Household Portfolio Allocations
Growing research links household financial decisions to physical and mental health status within the nuclear family. We hypothesize that mental...
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The future of family-friendly policies
Families are under increasing stress from the rising cost of raising children, especially single-parent households and those where both parents...
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Women’s Careers and Family Formation
This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women’s labor force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal... -
Family farms and plantations in tropical development
Small family farms and plantations are the two contrasting systems of agricultural production in the tropics. While the family farm is an old...
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Review of the Effect of Family Ownership on Capital Structure
Family-owned companies occupy a large proportion of enterprises all over the world. It is meaningful for people to understand how family ownership... -
Micro Evidence Relating to House Rents, Prices and Investor Size from a Matched Dataset
We examine matched rent-price ratios and rent transaction prices for single-family houses in Miami-Dade County between January 2009 and April 2014....
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How Public Support for Innovation Affect Entrepreneurial Orientation of Mexican Companies: The Moderating Effect of Being a Family Business
We study the relationships between the input and network additionalities prompted by public support for innovation and entrepreneurial orientation...